Revisión de Compatibilidad con Linux

The Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S Plus is a PCI satellite TV card (DVB-S) and is the successor of the Nova-S (without the “Plus” in its name). The Nova-S Plus is equipped with a composite-, S-Video-, and a audio input In contrast to the Nova-S.
The Novas-S Plus is a “budget card”, i.e. the card has now MPEG decoder chip and therefore the video decoder has to ber carried out software based.

The Nova-S Plus can be used up to some restrictions under Linux (see below). The card is supported by Opensuse version 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x. Stable drivers for this card are included in the Linux kernel since at least version 2.6.24.

The card has a problem with the reception of horizontal polarized 22khz signals. These signals can not be received with a standard kernel (see bug report). There are kernel patches available to correct this error, but inclusion of these patches into the standard kernel is very unlikely. Instead, the patches have to be installed by hand and manual kernel compilation has to be performed to access the full potential of the card, i.e., to receive all channels.

The kernel modules cx8800 and cx88_dvb are needed to access the card. If these modules are not loaded automatically, they can be loaded by the following commands:

modprobe -v cx8800
modprobe -v cx88_dvb

At least two different version of the Nova-S Plus exist. Initialization of the version C1B1 is announced by the kernel in the following way: